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- From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
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- Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:13:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.222410.16897@nhgs.vak12ed.edu> <Bxy3s7.DI2@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <1992Nov19.210732.13959@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov20.005551.15061@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1ejc9tINNku@debussy.crhc.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1ejc9tINNku@debussy.crhc.uiuc.edu>, guillory@crhc.uiuc.edu (Stanford Guillory) writes:
- > stefan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stefan Michalowski) writes:
- >
- > >or, for that matter, "my great-great-great-great grandmother ran the
- > >most wretched whorehouse in ancient Thebes, so add 10 points to my
- > >exam score"...
- >
- > I hate to take offence at the last sentence of a long post, but I strongly
- > object to the inference that blacks get preferential treatment in the classroom
- > and in grading. I have NEVER, in my years as a student at three institutions,
- > including one in the UC system, observed such incidents.
-
- The problem is not that blacks (among other minorities) get preferential
- treatment, it is that unqualified blacks (who were admitted on academic
- credentials that would have been rejected for a white or asian student)
- get preferential treatment. And I don't think that it is grading once you
- are in that is the issue, it's getting an adjusted score on an admissions
- test if you are the right minority. This is a well-known practice at almost
- all major universities. Read "Illiberal Education", by Dinesh D'Souza. You
- may not agree with all of his conclusions, but it's hard to refute statements
- not just admitted, but boasted of, that your university does these things.
-
- > Oh, BTW, I would just like you to know that as a black man, I am not the one
- > who reminds myself that I am black everyday. It is the white society that
- > I live in. I would hardly notice I am black if a white person didn't remind
- > me of it everyday. Think about that.
-
- Granted.
-
- > >Stefan
- >
- > Stanford S. Guillory
- > guillory@crhc.uiuc.edu
-
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- Dan S.
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